Elon musk beat Amazon CEO Bezos to become the richest man in the world.

At the beginning of 2020, he had only $27 billion in assets.

In just one year, his net worth soared to $654.38+09.5 billion, equivalent to RMB 654.38+02.626 billion, equivalent to an increase of RMB 300,000 per second.

The news that Musk became the richest man in the world shocked many people.

He himself is very calm:

Musk was born in poor Africa. From repeated humiliation in childhood, mental breakdown during the start-up period, to the richest man in the world today, Musk's life can be said to be criss-crossed with luck and misfortune.

His mother Meyer Musk, elegant, confident and elegant, has been escorting Musk on the road to success.

However, his father, errol Musk, was a demon, accused of homosexuality, misogyny and pedophilia.

His father was violent at home and abused his wife and children. He once admitted that he had slapped Musk in his childhood.

When I was a child, Musk read widely and never forgot. He is known as the "Elon Encyclopedia" and is recognized as a genius in everyone's eyes.

However, because of his introverted personality, he was often excluded from school and became a victim of school bullying.

When starting a business, the information website established by him and his younger brother sold for $300 million, and Musk got a huge sum of money and became a rich man living in a villa in a luxury car.

But he dreamed of "going to heaven" and growing vegetables in space, so he invested wildly in building rockets.

As a result, the rocket explodes into fireworks every year, forcing him to sell all his possessions and have a nervous breakdown.

In the movie Farewell My Concubine, there is such a line:

It can be said that Musk can turn over against the wind and fight back. It is because he is obsessed with his dreams that he can make money to the extreme.

After reading the story of Musk, the richest man in the world, I realized five truths of life.

The first truth of life: you can't choose from a family, but you can go where you want.

When he was young, Meyer was too simple. In the face of her ex-husband's proposal, she hastily agreed without considering it.

After the marriage, her husband beat her during the honeymoon and hid her passport so that she could not escape.

She is pregnant with musk, and her husband will not pity her because she is pregnant.

Instead, she humiliated her in front of the guests, made her do manual labor with a big belly, and even prohibited her from contacting her family.

Meyer recalled those days in his autobiography:

Musk, who was thin when he was a child, protected his mother in this way.

(Meyer was elected as a beauty pageant champion when he was young. )

Until his forties, when Musk was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine, he still trembled when he talked about his father:

After getting married and having children, Musk refused to let his children see his father.

After his father divorced, he married three more wives.

His father's second wife brought a daughter. As a result, this stepsister became his father's last wife and gave birth to 1 daughter.

This nominal sister has been with Musk for six years.

It is hard to imagine what kind of inner suffering Musk has to endure with such a chaotic father.

(When Meyer was young)

Being born into a family left a mark on Musk, but fortunately, he has a mother who is a model of independent women.

At first, for the sake of children and self-help, Meyer resolutely divorced.

In order to force her to return to her original home, her husband has repeatedly sued her for ten years and repeatedly proved to the court that she has no ability to raise children alone.

Meyer has three children and lives in poverty. She has to work two jobs during the day, at the same time, she has to work part-time as a model and nutrition consultant, and she has to go to night school to study for a master's degree.

They rented a small house, the child slept in the bedroom, she slept in the living room or kitchen, and she could only eat cheap peanut butter sandwiches and bean soup at night.

Even though life is so hard, Meyer still insists on divorce:

(1976, Meyer was in South Africa with three children)

In an interview report about Meyer, there is such a passage:

I quite agree with this statement. It was Musk's mother who taught him to stick to his love with her own experience.

With the help of his mother, he cured himself and grew into a legend.

The second truth of life: no one can become a good piece of steel without a lot of tempering.

In the eyes of his peers, Musk is a nerd who likes to show off.

Once, he was pushed down a high staircase, and was beaten black and blue by the pursuers and fainted.

Musk began to learn karate and judo immediately after his body began to develop.

When he was bullied again, he seized the opportunity and knocked the biggest bully to the ground with one punch. Since then, no one has dared to bully him.

In retrospect, many years later, he ruthlessly put in a sentence:

With these tragic experiences, Musk became introverted, but the unyielding and rebellious qualities in his bones became more and more obvious.

When he graduated from high school, it was in the late 1980s, when the national strength of the United States was strong, and he made up his mind to study and develop in the United States.

But for a high school student, going to America is not easy.

His mother Meyer was born in Canada and holds a Canadian passport. According to Canadian law, he can apply for Canadian citizenship.

So Musk's first step was to apply for Canadian citizenship for a whole year.

His father resolutely opposed his going to Canada, insulted him as an idiot and threatened not to give him a penny for living expenses.

Musk, 17 years old, just wants to leave his father far away. He boarded the plane alone and left South Africa.

After that, he never went back.

I have read such a passage:

It's not freezing in the cold, so where does the plum blossom smell come from?

In the end, the suffering that Musk experienced became the foreshadowing of his surprise.

The third truth of life: all talents are produced with the passage of time.

Musk was a genius with a halo since he was a child.

Musk, 12 years old, wrote an outer space shooting game, which was bought by a company for 500 dollars.

At that time, he also wanted to open a game hall with his younger brother.

They have bought a machine and rented a store, but his business plan was forced to terminate because the government refused to issue a business license to children under the age of 18, and parents did not agree to do it for them.

At the age of 28, he and his younger brother founded an information website, which put information such as the location of businesses on the network to improve the arrival rate of customers, similar to the current US Mission.

At that time, the internet was just emerging, and this idea was very advanced.

Later, the company was acquired by 300 million dollars, and he got 22 million dollars.

After this battle, Musk became a rich man and bought a luxury car.

(Musk when he was young)

Then, Musk founded a second company.

He set up a website that can pay by e-mail, which completely changed the credit card transaction at that time, just like the QR code replaces the cash transaction now.

Needless to say, in 2002, Musk cashed in 65.438+0.8 billion yuan through this company and successfully completed the leap from multi-millionaire to billionaire.

His achievements in his career are enough to prove his genius.

(Two brothers in the start-up period)

In fact, when Musk and his younger brother started their business, they only scraped together $2,000.

They rented a linked office, because there was no extra money, they ate and lived in the office, and even went to the public bathroom of the church to take a shower.

Moreover, Musk likes reading books since he was a child. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche were read in primary schools, and the average reading time per day was as high as 10 hour.

When I was a student, I almost finished reading all the books in the school library.

He studied in Canada for two years, and then applied to the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton Business School for further study.

He majored in economics first, and in order to master more skills, he studied physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Arts and Sciences for another year.

He holds a double degree in physics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

When he first arrived in the United States, he and his brother collected the phone numbers of countless corporate executives and called one by one to ask if they could have lunch with him.

After making countless phone calls, I got an opportunity, and the executive who had lunch with him gave Musk an internship.

In fact, there is no natural genius at all, only the unknown efforts behind success.

The fourth truth of life: Only with extraordinary ambition can we achieve extraordinary success.

Musk, 3 1 year-old, achieved economic freedom. At this time, he is fully capable of pursuing his dreams.

But his dream is to send a greenhouse into space with a rocket and build an ecosystem in space.

Even now, his dream is crazy.

In order to stop him, his friend thought that mice were needed for space experiments, and mice's favorite food was cheese, so he bought him a big box of cheese and sent it, and deliberately ridiculed: "Dude can only help you here."

Musk was not influenced by external sounds.

He planned to invest $20 million to buy a rocket, but failed to bargain with the buyer. The other party ridiculed him: "Don't play this if you have no money."

He was very angry and vowed to invest in making rockets.

In order to pursue his dream, Musk funded the establishment of a space exploration technology company in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

From 2002 to 2006, he and his team worked all night and spent four years building rockets.

But 25 seconds after launch, the rocket lost control and fell to the ground.

After that, it was launched twice in succession, both of which ended in failure.

Someone quipped:

Musk has a spirit of "down-to-earth, don't give up until you succeed".

He sold his property, private jet and other assets crazily. When he couldn't sell it, he contacted friends everywhere to borrow money. No matter how difficult it is, he will build a rocket.

Until 2008, Musk's rocket was finally successfully launched, officially opening the road to commercial space flight.

Now, Space Exploration Technology has become the world's largest commercial satellite operator, and the profits that Musk has gained from it are immeasurable.

And his next goal is to let 654.38+0 million people move to Mars by 2050.

In the preface to Wang Teng-ting, Wang Bo said:

In fact, this sentence is not only suitable for describing Musk, but also suitable for every dream catcher.

The more difficult it is, the more determined it is to be lingyun.

The fifth truth of life: If you want to be extremely successful, you must first drive yourself crazy.

Behind Musk's business legend, there is a huge work team. In order to achieve the work goals set by Musk, they work more than 100 hours per week.

If anyone says in front of Musk that the work can't be finished, he will say, "You are fired, and then your work will be borne by me."

He really fired the other party and then took over the other party's work to finish it better.

In his eyes, nothing in the world is impossible. Whoever says that he can't do it is to admit that he is incompetent or doesn't want to do it, and use it as an excuse.

But he forgot that not everyone can be a "genius Musk".

Once, an employee missed an activity because of having a baby, and Musk sent an email to scold him.

Once, Musk's two-month-old son was strangled because he was covered with a quilt and was not found in time.

At that time, Musk was making rockets crazily and didn't even have time to shed a tear, so his ex-wife Justin accused him of being cold-blooded.

In fact, for people who are extremely eager for success like Musk, of course, their own career is more important, but not necessarily for others.

12 Ms. Brown, his assistant, was directly fired by him for asking for a raise.

Ms. Brown, who followed him around the clock, only got N+ 1 compensation when she left her job.

In order to succeed, Musk can be willing to give up, but he can't ask others to forget everything like him.

On social networking sites like Zhihu abroad, there is such a problem:

Musk's ex-wife Justin replied:

What do you think of this?

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Author: July

References:

Quantum bit: Interview with Meyer Musk: How was Iron Man made in Silicon Valley? 》

World Online Merchant: Musk Becomes the Richest Man in the World at Last.

He Yanjia: Elon Musk: Next stop, Mars.

Wall Street News: Musk ascended the throne of the richest man in the world.